Building Australia

ClientFoxtel - History Channel

Year2013

ProducersMichael Tear, Harriet Pike

WriterMichael Cove

DirectorSerge Ou

Building Australia explores the hidden history of our houses. Over six half hour episodes John Doyle looks at the nature of the Australian house in all of its iterations around the country. Why have we built the way we have? How has Australia shaped the Australian house? And how has the Australian house shaped the lives and culture of Australians?Commissioned by FOXTEL’s History Channel with support from the Screen Australia National Documentary Program, Building Australiaprovides a unique insight into the building that matters most to all of us – the home.